Tricia Pursley is a retired American

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. The

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-born actress is best known as Devon Shepherd McFadden, daughter of Ellen Shepherd (

Kathleen Noone Kathleen Noone (''née'' O'Meara; January 8, 1945) is an American actress. She began her career as a singer in nightclubs and performed in musicals off-Broadway before making her television debut in the CBS daytime soap opera, ''As the World Turn ...

), on ''

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''. Pursley played the role from 1977 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1984. After being written off ''

'', she taped a primetime pilot "Love Long Distance" for Procter and Gamble productions. She has since retired from acting and is operating a nursery business started by her father in Florida. She is a 1970 graduate of Northeast High School in St. Petersburg. She is also a graduate of

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(1974). She went on to study at the

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in New York.

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Date of birth missing (living people) 1950s births Living people 20th-century American actresses Actors from St. Petersburg, Florida Actresses from Florida American soap opera actresses {{US-tv-actor-1950s-stub Actresses from Pinellas County, Florida